Indeed, i would of ejected it's image from my memory if my LCR was a hateful thing. It was and still is a great car, and i still have a large gallery of my images dedicated to it.
My only expression is some of the arguments are clearly hyped, and are at most completely inaccurate.
Cheap components such as it's stock dampers and springs affected the LCR after only a few months. The day i picked up my new LCR it was on rails, 6 months later its ride was ruined by crashy leaking dampers. I expect before long the
Cupra may suffer the same issues, but so far it's lasted longer than the LCR did.
However in my mind if you want performance out of any car, you need to invest in performance parts. My LCR was transformed with Eibach rollbars and Eibach
coilovers, but the chassis was still not as dynamic as the Mk2 chassis is.
Though my current Mk2
Cupra may roll more on it's stock suspension, the chassis is more balanced so the softer ride and damping doesn't limit it as much as the stock stuff did on the LCR. I can forsee that when i eventually invest in a performance solution for the Mk2
Cupra it will improve the handling in equal measure.
Subsequently they are both great SEAT's and owners should be rightly proud and enthusiastic about them. They both have their drawbacks, and in the minds eye critical failings too.
I'll put it this way, if i didn't have a Mk2
Cupra, i'd still be in a LCR.